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I was listening to a really old episode of the EveryBranch podcast with Brooke Snow and Sarah Bray the other day. They did an episode on friendship, and talked about how people who have lots of friends live longer than people who don’t. That statistic is especially pronounced for people who are more reclusive than your average…

I know I’m a pretty late to the party on this, but I really can’t believe 2014 is over already. It doesn’t feel like as monumental of a year as 2013 did. Like, not enough exciting stuff happened for the entire year to be gone already. But, despite my not being a 5-days-a-week blogger (or,…

If we’ve ever had any kind of discussion on productivity, creativity, focus, goal-setting, getting out of one’s head, or anything tangentially related to those things, you’ve almost certainly heard me sing the praises of Morning Pages. The concept comes from Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, which I encountered in 2012. Danielle Krysa was the first…

At some point in late high school or early college, I realized that I associated certain albums with particular seasons. For example, most Tori Amos is winter or the height of a blazing hot summer night. Extremes. But, Tori’s Beekeeper was solidly spring. (I listened to a lot of Tori Amos during this time period.)…

We’re in the midst of a move. It’s not far, but it’s fairly major. It’s maybe the most physically and mentally exhausting move I’ve endured so far, even though it’s literally just a few blocks. I’m looking forward to the chance to purge and rearrange thoughtfully, which is admittedly counter to my accumulative nature. I…